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The final salary link in public service pensions is 'inherently unfair' and can lead to high flyers getting almost twice as much back in pensions than those on more modest earnings for the same amount of pension contributions, Lord John Hutton says.

Investment bank J.P. Morgan has started quoting prices for Consumer Prices Index swaps after the government announced it would change the indexation basis for pension increases from RPI to CPI this summer.

Auto-enrolment is placing a significant burden on payroll and human resource departments, as they struggle to cope with the changes in preparation for 2012, rpmi says.

There are just over three weeks' left to enter the Art of Pensions 2010, the annual competition run by electronic information service provider Pendragon.

Regulator determination panel says US parent was source of contributions

The Pension Protection Fund should stop using gilt yields to calculate the levy, Trigon Pensions says.

The British Chambers of Commerce has aired concerns about auto-enrolment, claiming it places pressure upon smaller and medium sized businesses.

Three defined contribution schemes have received the NAPF's Pension Quality Mark PLUS award for providing "outstanding" defined contribution schemes to their employees.

The market is not always right so basing all investment policy on it is dangerous and bound to increase short-term thinking, Lindsay Tomlinson says.

A general lack of investment knowledge poses risks for people saving into defined contribution schemes, BlackRock says.